The Center for Rotating Machinery (CeRoM) is committed to improve productivity
and enhance global competitiveness of its partners in industry. CeRoM
will focus on interdisciplinary problem solving, research and development
in close collaboration with industry to provide cutting-edge technological
innovations to solve complex problems in engineering systems. CeRoM will
serve as an intellectual foundation to the industry with focus on continuous
improvement and long-range development.

CeRoM will
foster the development of next generation mechanical components, materials
synthesis and fabrication techniques to enhance operation efficiency,
reduce energy consumption, and meet the ever-increasing challenge of environmental
compliance. CeRoM will serve the needs of the large industrial base within
the state of Louisiana and elsewhere in the U.S.

The Center’s
R&D activities will include the following areas: tribology addressing
lubrication, friction, and wear; dynamics and vibration analysis of machinery;
materials selection, advanced coating materials and processes, fatigue
and damage analysis; measurement, testing, and sensing; modeling and simulation;
and education. These activities will directly support improvements in
design, manufacturing, diagnostics, reliability, performance, durability,
and environmental compliance of vital mechanical systems and components,
including but not limited to bearings, seals, gears, turbines, compressors,
and generators.

An important
mission of CeRoM is to facilitate the life-long learning process and professional
development for the vital industrial workforce. CeRoM will provide continuing
education and training of engineers and operational personnel from a wide
variety of industries which utilize/manufacture rotating machinery. Based
upon direct feedback from industrial members, the Center will offer pertinent
short courses, organize symposia dealing with rotating machinery technologies,
and deliver seminars on a regular basis. Thus, CeRoM will implement an
efficient avenue for transfer of technology and provide a forum for exchanging
ideas with OEMs, end-users, and industrial researchers.

An Industrial
Advisory Board consisted of the industrial members and government agency
partners will review the Center’s projects, plans, accomplishments,
and schedule of events on semi-annual basis and make recommendations for
improvement as needed.